Seacoal

Dramatizes the lives of 'seacoalers', who gather coal spilled from local pits and washed ashore by the tide. Northumberland dialect.

Ray drives to a block of flats in Sunderland to collect Betty who is his partner. They drive on to a pub for a wedding night time party. Ray is in the process of doing a deal with one of his old associates who are seacoalers that work and live on the Lynemouth coast, reclaiming waste coal that is washed in on the tide. Ray then goes ahead without consulting Betty sells his car and buys a horse, which sets him up as a freelance seacoaler, this enables him to get a better rate for his collected coal.